The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
Nobel Co-recipients Tadeus Reichstein, Phillip S.Hench
Chemist. Adrenal cortex hormones including cortisone: structure, biological effects. Thyroid hormone thyroxine: isolated. Glutathione: crystallized, established structure.
What physiologic processes are modified by cortisone and how this influence is exerted are matters still locked within this hormone. Said Shakespeare’s soothsayer, “In Nature’s infinite book of secrecy a little I can read.”
Biography
Edward C. Kendall. A Biographical Memoirs by Dwight Ingle, National Academy of Sciences. 44pages.
Scribners scientific memoirs
“His greatness lay in his ability to select important goals that were achievable, to persevere toward them during periods of adversity and disappointment, and to select gifted associates.” – Biographical Memoirs by Dwight Ingle
Edward Calvin Kendall. How has he transformed the scene? Minnesota Science and Teaching.
Edward Calvin Kendall
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